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Carnegie Mellon University CMU and the Sarno Corporation Sarno are performing an integrated feasibility demonstration of Video Surveillance and Monitoring VSAM The ob jective is to develop a cooperative multi sensor video surveillance system that provides contin uous coverage over battle eld areas Signi cant achievements have been demonstrated during VSAM Demo I in November and in the interveni...

Gastric cancer (GC) has significant morbidity and mortality worldwide and especially in China. Its molecular pathogenesis has not been thoroughly elaborated. The acknowledged biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, recurrence monitoring and treatment are lacking. Proteins from matched pairs of human GC and adjacent tissues were analyzed by a coupled label-free Mass Spectrometry (MS) approach, foll...

AIM To identify proteins that are differentially expressed in cells derived from normal and diseased tunica albuginea (TA) as related to Peyronie's disease (PD). METHODS Cells with characteristics of fibroblasts were isolated from two tissue sources. Those from the plaque of patients with PD were designated as PT cells, and those from the normally-appearing TA of the same patients were design...

53 persons suspected to alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency detection (aatd) were investigated for zz, mz, zs, ss, and ms alleles analysis by serum protein electrophoresis (spe), measurement of trypsin inhibiting capacity (tic), isoelectric focusing (ief), polymerase chain reaction (pcr), and ief/pcr-rflp techniques. the result clearly shows by using spe and tic techniques only 35.85 % and 50.08% of ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, which often follows a relapsing-remitting (RR) course with discrete attacks. MS attacks have been associated with upper respiratory infections (URIs), but the specific viruses responsible have not been identified. We studied a cohort of 16 RRMS patients experiencing URI and followed them for clinically ide...

A PCR assay which allows detection and quantification of Epichloë endophytes in tissues of the grass Bromus erectus is described. PCR with specific primers flanking a microsatellite-containing locus (MS primers) amplified fragments 300 to 400 bp in length from as little as 1.0 pg of fungal genomic DNA in 100 ng of DNA from infected plant material. When annealing temperatures were optimized, all...

BACKGROUND Pathogen recognition receptors such as Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns, lead to the activation of innate immunity. Genetic variations in these receptors may lead to an altered host immune response to pathogens. METHODS We developed homogeneous fluorescence-based PCR assays as well as matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time...

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), which provides high sensitivity and resolution, has been used for the analysis of biopolymers. In past decade, MALDI-TOF MS utilized in clinical fields around world to identify microbial species. However, serotype or strain discrimination same bacterial species is difficult by MS. Different methods such...